The data say Texas should expand Medicaid | Opinion
Texas Sen. Nathan Johnson, D-Dallas, supports medicaid expansion in the state.It was with a mixture of disdain and gratitude that I read in this newspaper David Balat’s April 24, in which he purports to beat the badly concussed Medicaid expansion horse a little closer to death with another round of … the same old arguments. Why gratitude? We’re back in the news!
Under pressure from its GOP leadership and the sad inertia of a lack of understanding, the Texas Legislature again refused to expand Medicaid. We’ve lost another two years of revenue and health and job creation. Even worse, we rejected a $4 billion bonus incentive from the federal government to do what we should be doing anyway. Yes, $4 billion that would have flowed to Texas from Washington.
Take, for example, the 662,000 Texans who, though eligible for Medicaid under our existing state law, supposedly “choose” not to enroll. Around 550,000 of them are children. They didn’t choose to not enroll.
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